Am only basing this on the Twitter comments such as this one: https://twitter.com/esotericpig/status/938353364827381760 While impressive, seems like a PR stunt and a disrespectful slap in the face to the Stockfish developers. How can you compare TPUs to CPUs/GPUs? Hardware was skewed. And w/o an op...

(despite the hardware being different) It would be interesting to know more about this. I have to admit that I am hunting for some reason why this shocking development is not quite as it appears. There's a paper which says AlphaZero was evaluating 80K positions a second while Stockfish was looking ...

My view FWIW: - if the players consent to play then the game should be graded; - the captains of the players - if not the players themselves - really ought to know the rules. Thus player B should have the choice: claim the game and don't play it else don't claim the game and play it. Alternatively, ...

The Palma de Mallorca FIDE Grand Prix has just started... Am I missing something or is ChessBomb (in addition to Chess24) not covering the event? Presumably scared off by Agon? You can see the boards at https://worldchess.com/gp2017/ . Or maybe they don't wish to lend support (if that's the way the...

The $2 million question is who will turn up and will they make it through Riyadh airport passport check. Also what the dress code will be for female players and whether they will be allowed to hire a car to drive themselves should they so wish. Women are now allowed to drive cars in Saudi Arabia . ...

Good result for Scotland, but I do have to say that the idea of their being notably out rated by the Faroe islands.... It's probably been asked before but are the Faroe Islands the strongest chess nation per capita? Wikipedia gives the country's population as 50,030 (April 2017) and in the current ...

I played that year and remember travelling on a small propeller-propelled plane from Southampton which swayed violently when coming in to land. Angus, you're no doubt thinking of a Britten Norman Islander or Trislander operated by Aurigny. In terms of numbers produced, the most successful British c...

30 years ago the tournament was shaken by the arrival of the great storm the night before Round 1, before the storm headed north to England. Wind speeds were higher than on the mainland, but the island was soon up and running. I played that year and remember travelling on a small propeller-propelle...

Such a straightforward meeting would have been unthinkable two years ago. Why would that be? And is it a good thing? Apply thought before answering Possibly relevant to David's question. Possibly not. I made it that there were 34 attendees of the meeting including, I think, two non-voting officers....